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SECTION Scoreboard2 Preps4 Classified8 Friday, December 28, 1984 IfUiS ineales Worn By TED POWER Tennessean Sports Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Tennessee State freshman Anthony Gaines says playing tonight against All-American Patrick Ewing of top-ranked Georgetown will be a dream, not a nightmare, come true. "The first thing I thought of when I found out we were going to play Georgetown was Patrick Ewing," said Gaines. "I've seen him on television all those times that I always hoped that someday I'd get to play against him," added the 18-year-old center. Gaines gets his second start of the season tonight at 7 p.m. (CST), when the Tigers, 3-7, meet the Hoyas, 9-0, in the second game of the Copa Navidad basketball classic here at the Roberto Clemente Sports Complex.

against many of New York's finest including Virginia's Olden Polynice, St John's Walter Berry and former Villanova star Ed Pinckney. But there's only one Ewing. "I've thought about it a lot, but we can't go in there scared. We have to be confident that we can win even if it is a longshot," said Gaines. "And we are not just concerned with Ewing.

We want to contain the whole team. But when Ewing does get the ball, I'll have to deal with him," added the Big Blue freshman. Because the 45-second shot clock will be in effect, the Tigers won't be able to hold the ball. (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) The game follows the contest between North Carolina and Seton Hall and will be televised by cable network ESPN. Tomorrow night, TSU and N.C switch opponents, with the Tigers and Seton Hall tipping off at 7 p.m.

(CST). But it is tonight's game against No. 1 Georgetown, the defending NCAA champion, that so dominates the Tigers' attention now, even though the odds of an upset are more than great. The sudden resignation of head coach Ed Martin, which came a week ago and left Meyers in charge, and TSU's five-game losing streak are hardly distractions now. "Everybody's attitude seems to be way above their heads.

Part of it has to do with being here, but it is particularly true because of Georgetown," said freshman point guard and ring fingers, but no harm was done," he said. Ewing has averaged 13.6 points and 10.0 rebounds per game in leading Georgetown to a 9-0 start this season. As the cog in a harassing defense, Ewing has helped intimidate opponents into hitting just 36.5 of their shots. Now Gaines, who is averaging 3.0 points and 2.4 rebounds a game, must try to stop him. "I'm not real worried about my scoring.

I'm just going to try to contain him," said Gaines as he soaked his left ankle in ice, a daily ritual since his high school days in New York City. There at Ben Franklin and Martin Luther King high schools, Gaines earned all-city honors. He also got the chance to play Alvin Martin. The Hoyas' average victory margin has been 25.5 points and they beat nationally ranked Nevada-Las Vegas and DePaul by 36 and 20 points, respectively. It is the imposing Ewing, the 7-foot senior center, a hero of the winning U.S.

Olympic team, who dominates Georgetown. Ewing will play despite a taped right hand from an injury suffered earlier in the week. Ewing fell in a game against DePaul but didn't suffer any fractures. Hoyas coach John Thompson says Ewing came to play. "He played the night before last (Monday).

Can you imagine what I did when I saw Pat fall in that game and wince in pain? said Thompson, crossing himself. "He fell with all his weight on the middle Music City Test 6 For Confidence tt Host Vandy Eyes Columbia; Clemson Vs. Massachusetts wi TfN "-f mi A v- kvw A nn WW-- jW kXl sa I ur p.m. of And into us, two we said we Adams Waiting For VU Transfer Bud Adams, a freshman forward who left the Georgia Tech basketball team earlier this month, said yesterday that he plans to transfer to Vanderbilt. Adams, a 6-foot-7 forward, was used only sparingly in the Yellow Jackets' first three games this season.

He met with Tech Coach Bobby Cremins after the third game and left the team before a Dec. 11 game against Georgia. A graduate of Pace Academy in Atlanta, Adams said he plans to enroll at Vanderbilt Jan. 7. He will lose a year of eligibility by transferring, but would be eligible to play for the Commodores in January 1986.

letting up on a team will cost us," said Burrow, alluding to last Saturday when Indiana State rallied from a 22-8 deficit to tag Vandy with its first loss. "We'll not make that mistake again. Coach Newton wouldn't allow it, anyway," he said. First-year Clemson coach Cliff Ellis, the one-time head coach at Lebanon's Cumberland College, says the Tigers are "in a rebuilding stage and very pleased just to be 5-2 at this point in the season." (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) tered numerous recent financial problems. The most pressing is a $63 million lawsuit filed in California after one of his former employees was convicted of bid-rigging.

Competing contractors filed the suit for losses they claim the bid rigging cost them. Hodgdon is also being sued by North Carolina Motor Speedway for $105,000 for purse and television committments. Bristol Raceway, another of his properties, is reportedly on the verge of going under. The Bank of Virginia is close to foreclosing on the track for a debt of $1,450,000, a source close to the situation told The Tennessean yesterday. Bristol general manager Larry Carrier was unavailable for comment.

Baker's name is reportedly also on one or more of the Bristol notes. 21 15 Lafayette center Karl Klinger (34) reaches over Tennessee's Michael in a battle for a rebound during action at Stokely Athletics Center in Vols Ramble 77-58 By DAVID CLIMER Tennessean Sports Writer KNOXVILLE The lightest of a pre-conference schedule sprinkled with lightweights played its role perfectly last night as Lafayette supplied little competition in Tennessee's easy 77-58 victory. The win, as well as the method with which it was accomplished, was exactly what Vol coach Don DeVoe wanted going into tomorrow's 12:30 p.m. CST game against unbeaten and 13th-ranked Michigan. "It's always important to play well in the first game after the Christmas break.

We were slow getting started in the first 10 minutes, but after that I thought we did a good job of turning the game around with our defease," DeVoe said. That defensive effort limited Lafayette a 5396 shooting team in its previous games to just 37 from the floor in the first half. The visiting Leopards hit 43.4 for the game as the Vols won their sixth straight while running their record to 8-3. Lafayette, which was coming off a 16-day layoff, slipped to 5-4. The Leopards' other losses have been to Ohio State, St.

Johns and Pittsburgh. Michael Brooks provided the spark for Tennessee last night as he whipped in 20 points and dished off 10 assists. Tony White added 14 points and Anthony Richardson got 12 points and five rebounds as the Vols lost the battle on the boards 34-32. Myron Carter, a former walk-on from Madison, started in place of Fred Jenkins and contributed 10 points. Jenkins, still nursing two bruised fingers on his shooting hand, played 21 minutes and scored six points.

Gary Bennett and reserve Paul Stauri led Lafayette with 12 points each while Tony Duckett managed just seven before fouling out with 12:27 remaining. Duckett brought a 12.5-point average into the game as the Leopards' leading scorer. A Stokely Athletics Center crowd of roughly 8,500 considerably less than the 11,452 who paid for tickets saw the Vols stumble and struggle at the outset Bennett's outside jumper tied it 17-17 with 9:14 left in the first half and things got a little tense on the Vol bench. It was close. Maybe too close, according to Lafayette coach Butch van Breda Kolff.

referees didn't think we should've still been in the game and they made sure we weren't in it very long," said van Breda Kolff, a much-traveled coaching veteran who is in the first year of his second stint at Lafayette. "When you play a Big 10 team like Ohio State, you get Big 10 officials. When you play a Southeastern Conference team like Tennessee, you get SEC officials. What am I going to do, write to their commissioner and say their referees are terrible?" Asked about a situation where his team got just two free throws while slipping to a 35-21 halftime deficit, van Breda Kolff said, "I don't see how that can happen against a team like Tennessee that plays an aggressive man-to-man defense." After forging that 17-17 tie, Lafayette's shooting touch completely disappeared. The Leopards next basket came on a Staubi drive with 2:13 remaining in the half.

During that seven-minute dead spot, LT piled on 14 unanswered points to go up 31-17 and set the tone for the rest of the evening. Up by 14 at Intermission, the Vols put the game away early in the second half as they capitalized on steals which led to easy baskets at the other end of the court. Two free (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) Baker, Hodgdon Tussle for Trade Ownership By JIMMY DAVY Vanderbilt and Clemson, the two favorites in tonight's Music City Invitational opening round, are traveling similar courses toward conference play. And each has something to prove when this annual basketball tournament cranks up at Vanderbilt's Memorial Gymnasium. Vandy, 6-1, looks to regain momentum as it hosts Columbia, an Ivy League team with a 1-4 record at 8 at Memorial Gymnasium.

Rebuilding Clemson, 5-2, plays Massachusetts, 3-3, in the first game the double-header at 6 p.m. For the most part, Vandy and Clemson have built early winning records over outclassed opponents. each hopes to eventually move conference play with confidence bouyed by a sweep in this annual tournament "This tournament is important to because we want to go into Southeastern Conference play with big wins and an attitude that if play hard we can beat anyone," Vandy center Brett Burrow yesterday. "Our goal is to finish in the top six seeded teams for the postseason tournament and I feel we can do it if play hard and smart," the improving 6-10 junior said. The tallest Commodore says it is unlikely anyone in the Vandy camp is overlooking Columbia its third Ivy League opponent of the season for the anticipated clash with Clemson in tomorrow night's championship game.

"We have just experienced what in automobile racing in Nashville and Tennessee and still believe in its potential as a major league sport" Baker's attorney, Ken Campbell, said Baker made the lease payment "to protect his collateral as a secured creditor." Campbell said Hodgdon still owed Baker money from their earlier transaction and that Baker paid the Fair Board debt in order to keep Hodgdon from losing the lease and Baker from consequently losing his investment Asked if Baker's long-term goal was to regain control of the track, Campbell said: "Obviously, if Gary pays off the debt he would expect to be repaid." Hodgdon, whose real estate and construction empire was valued at $700 million at one time, has encoun- the Tide in favor of Auburn with his 40-yard gallop on an option pitch. Jackson, who had a two-yard TD run in the first quarter, finished with 88 yards on 18 carries. Arkansas added a late touchdown on a 25-yard pass from Taylor to Shibest with 3:10 remaining. Arkansas claimed a 3-0 lead on its first possession of the game, driving to the Auburn 14 before settling for a 31-yard field goal by Greg Home. Auburn responded immediately, driving 80 yards to take a 6-3 lead nine minutes into the game on Jackson's 2-yard run.

Tigers quarterback Pat Washington kept the 11-play drive alive with a 25-yard completion to Jackson on a third-and-9 situation. A 24-yard strike to Clayton Beauford gave Auburn a first-and-goal at the 2, but placeklcker Robert McGinty's extra-point was wide left. AP Loserphoto Brooks (21) and Rob Jones (34) Knoxville. The Vols won 77-58. for another payment extention to Jan.

2. The payment was originally due Nov. 30 but Hodgdon was granted an extension until Dec. 20. After he again failed to meet the payment date, the Fair Board scheduled a meeting for this afternoon to decide what course to pursue.

Carver said it was his understanding that the Fair Board had decided to turn down Baker's check and grant Hodgdon the Jan. 2 extension. But Board chairman John Wilson said that was not the case. "We haven't decided anything," said Wilson. "We've turned it all over to the Legal Department and we'll do what they tell us to do." Baker declined comment on the situation yesterday, other than to say: "I have always had an interest By LARRY WOODY Financially strapped Nashville Raceway finds itself the object of a struggle between owner Warner Hodgdon and his former partner, Gary Baker.

The winner will be determined by the Metro Legal Department, which is in the process of deciding whether to accept a check in hand from Baker or await a promised payment from Hodgdon who has already missed two deadlines. Baker, a Nashville attorney who sold his interest in the local track to Hodgdon two years ago, yesterday paid an overdue $102,644.29 bill owed the State Fair Board, from which the raceway property is leased. Shortly afterward, however, Hodgdon called from his office in Auburn Holds Off Scrappy Arkansas San Bernadino, to request that the Fair Board turn down Baker's check and give him until Jaa 2 to make the payment. Hodgdon said Baker's move is designed to take over the track. "Warner said that if they accept Baker's check he (Baker) has him in a box," said Raceway general manager Joe Carver.

"Apparently if Baker makes the payment, then he can turn around and demand full payment from Warner. If Warner can't pay, Baker takes over the lease. Frankly, I'd wondered myself what Gary's motive was." Carver said Fair manager Ted Vaughn had turned the matter over the Metro Legal Department It will decide whether to accept Baker's check or to grant Hodgdon's request "We've been a good fourth-quarter team all year," said Arkansas Coach Ken Hatfield. "We had our chances but didn't take advantage. This team left a tradition for teams in years to come.

They never doubted they'd win. Even on the last play, our players thought they'd win." The victory allowed Auburn to salvage a 9-4 record from a 1984 season that began with the Southeastern Conference team forecast as the No. 1 team. Arkansas, a surprise contender for the Southwest Conference title, finished 7-4-1 before a capacity crowd 50.180. The Tigers had kept Arkansas' flex-bone offense at bay most of the evening on the strength of four pass Interceptions, one of which was returned 35 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter by cornerback Kevin Porter.

MEMPHIS (AP) Auburn Coach Pat Dye got the fight he expected last night as the 16th-ranked Tigers held off scrappy Arkansas 21-15 in the 26th annual Liberty Bowl game. "I told our team they would have to fight and scratch the whole game if they were to beat Arkansas, and that's exactly what they did," Dye said. The Tigers needed a 40-yard, fourth-quarter touchdown run by halfback Bo Jackson to subdue the Razorbacks, who scored two touchdowns in the final period. "Everybody knew coming Into the game that Arkansas wasn't that big, but they play a lot like Michigan," said Jackson. "They're quick and get around the football.

I didn't expect a game like this at all. I thought we'd be able to move the football well, but they proved me wrong on the first series." Trailing 14-3, Arkansas clawed its way back into the game when rover-back Nathan Jones shook the football loose from Tigers' runningback Brent Fullwood at the Auburn 38 and recovered it at the 6. Fullback Marshall Foreman scored from the 2 three plays later to pull the Razorbacks within 14-9 with 11 minutes left. Arkansas remained five points behind when quarterback Brad Taylor's conversion pass sailed over the head of split end James Shibest Arkansas came within a whisker of taking the lead with 8:30 left when Taylor hit a wide-open Bobby Joe Edmonds at the Auburn 15 on a fourth-and-one play from the Auburn 46, but he bobbled the ball and dropped it, giving the Tigers possession. Jackson, stifled by Arkansas' defense up until that time, then turned Auburn upped its lead to 14-3 only 1:43 later when Porter intercepted a Taylor pass at the 35 and raced down the sideline to the end zone.

Washington scrambled around his own left end for the two-point conversion. The Tigers wasted second-quarter pass interceptions by cornerback Jonathan Robinson and safety Arthur Johnson. Auburn failed to pick up a first down after Robinson picked off a pass by the Razorbacks' Danny Nutt at the Arkansas 45. McGinty missed a 30-yard field goal attempt after Johnson intercepted a tipped Nutt pass at the Arkansas 14. Dick Beasly came up with Auburn's fourth interception, returning a Taylor pass to the Arkansas 47 in the third quarter, but the Tigers again failed to move.

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